Tunde Odesola With tonnes of turmoil – the weight of Olumo Rock – pressing down on my soul, I sit at my desk and stare at...
By Israel Adebiyi In literature, few tales haunt the conscience as profoundly as that of Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. A former convict hardened...
By Suyi Ayodele It was meant to be a joyous occasion. Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State has just been affirmed as the governor of the...
By Lasisi Olagunju She spoke with so much authority on the sleaze and dirt that make our lawmakers so fat like the well-fed pigs in Animal...
By Lasisi Olagunju Odysseus survived the Trojan War. He experienced “blissful forgetfulness” in the land of the Lotus-Eaters; he was captured by the Cyclops Polyphemus; he...
By Festus Adedayo Sometime in the early 2000s, at the cusp of Tafa Balogun’s glory as the Inspector General of Police, an oil magnate from a...
Tunde Odesola The presidential convoy spread out on the Third Mainland Bridge like a cloud of bats on seasonal migration. Sirens screamed. Lights flashed. The convoy...
By Suyi Ayodele When an elderly supporter of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu tried to start a conversation about the opposition coalition party, African Democratic Congress (ADC),...
Decades ago, my late mother pointed at a house to me: “Someone in that house once snatched someone’s wife. In the evening, when it was time...
By Festus Adedayo Death does not kill alone/Nor does he fight singly/He goes to war with plenty of warriors…/He sends Disease first/He sends Paralysis next/He sends...